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I haven't used Mozilla for a while but I fired it up again for some testing and that top add-in bar is starting to get crowded. Might be time to revert back to Netscape Navigator given all the things they are shoving in there.

What's the story with default mail, calendars and browser on, say, Google Chrome, or MacOS?

Someone isn't trying to piggyback on a big news item for attention, are they?

Microsofts Cake is bigger in the Desktop OS market. And everyone wants to have a piece of it as well. And if they can't do it on their own, they even force Microsoft to do so (at least in Europe, where Microsoft had to change it from delivering Windows with just IE to letting the user choose a browser).

Having watched the video, the new UX sucks. I'm fine with making the change in an OS component to prevent crapware from showing deceptive dialogs; but the default apps app ( ) should open with the pick default web browser selector open so all the user has to do is make a single click in it to set their preference.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine code before being deployed to customer devices using .NET Native.

With security at the heart of Microsoft's latest operating system, and the general concern about online safety, it makes sense to put Microsoft Edge under the microscope to see how it fares against the competition.